The discovery of a world in the moone : $b or, A discovrse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planetWilkins, John
Philosophy
The discovery of a world in the moone : $b or, A discovrse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet
Wilkins, John
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Moon -- Early works to 1800
_That as their world is our Moone, so our world is their Moone._
Prop. 12.
_That tis probable there may bee such Meteors belonging to that world
in the Moone, as there are with us._
Prop. 13.
_That tis probable there may be inhabitants in this other World, but
of what kinde they are is uncertaine._
FINIS.
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[Transcriber’s Additional Notes and Errata]
Works and Authors Cited in Sidenotes:
This is not intended to be a comprehensive list. A few sources could not
be identified; others are so well-known, they did not need to be marked.
The following spellings and name forms are used consistently:
Austin = Augustine
Blancanus the Jesuit(e) = Josephus Blancanus, Giuseppe Biancani
Caelius = Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus
Tycho = Tycho Brahe
Nicholas Hill “a country man of ours”. Hill the early atomist,
not Hill (Montanus, van de Bergh) the printer.
Keplar = Kepler (Johannes)
Julius Caesar = Cæsar la Galla, Giulio Cesare La Galla, Lagalla
Mæslin = Maestlin (Michael)
Rawleigh, Rawly = Raleigh (Sir Walter)
Verulam = Francis Bacon (1st Baron Verulam)
Note also “sydera” for “sidera”.
Albertus Magnus: _De quattuor coaequaevis_
----: _De caelo et mundo_
Aristotle: _De Caelo_
Bede: _De ratione temporum_
Christopher Besoldus: _De Natura Populorum ejusque variatione, et de
Linguarum ortu atque immutatione_ (1632)
Josephus Blancanus (Giuseppe Biancani): _Sphaera mundi_
(Full Title: _Sphaera Mundi seu Cosmographia. Demonstrativa, ac
facili Methodo tradita: In qua totius Mundi fabrica, una cum novis,
Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumque; Astronomorum adinventis
continetur_)
----: _Aristotelis loca mathematica ex universes ipsius operibus
collecta et explicata_
Tycho (Brahe): _Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata_
Th. (Tommaso) Campanella: _Apologia pro Galileo_ (1622)
Collegium Conimbricenses (Jesuits of Coimbra University): _Commentarii
Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu in quattuor libros
physicorum Aristotelis de Coelo_ (1592)
Cardinal de Cusa, Cusanus (Nicholas of Cusa/Kues, Nicolaus Cryffts):
_De Docta Ignorantia_
Johannes Fabricius: _De Maculis in Sole Observatis, et Apparente earum
cum Sole Conversione Narratio_ (1611)
Text not identified by name.
Libertus Fromondus (Libert Froidmont): _Meteorologicorum libri sex_
(1627)
Galileo: _Nuncius Sidereus_
Camillus Gloriosus (Giovanni Camillo Glorioso): _De Cometis dissertatio
astronomico-physica_ (1624)
Isidore: _Originum_
Johannes Kepler: _Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo_
The name “Galileo” (or “Galilei”) is sometimes included in the
title, as “Diss. cum Nunc. Syd. Galil.”
----: _Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae_
----: _Astronomiae Pars Optica_
Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare La Galla): _De Phenomenis in Orbe Lunae_
(1612)
Leonard Lessius: _De perfectionibus moribusque divinis_ (1620)
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